My work is an attempt to bring into focus the implicit search for meaning which was acted out throughout the history of art & design, mythic imagination & psychological theory, as well as religious practices. The resulting ORIGINS and SHEMA color systems are not only useful for aesthetics — great mysteries of alchemy, religion and developments in psychology are made plain to talk about. The words used to describe and explain the chart can be understood and used easily by artists, interior designers and fashionistas.
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Mapping ORIGINS: Audiences in Turmoil /
“The greatest art is life itself,” becomes a colloquial notion, which encapsulates the esoteric art of alchemy, shamanism, and other forms of mysticism, which proceeded psychology as a modern way of describing the mysterious processes of living.
Read MoreMapping ORIGINS: The Art of Integration /
Artists seek resolution of inner and outer tensions, personally, in relationships and between cultural groups. This is a call to rise above flagrant moral negligence on the part of the academy, curators and artists themselves, to recognize that what we do has consequences, on a personal, national and global stage. In order to grow together:
Read MoreMapping ORIGINS: Conflicted Artists Position /
The contemporary artist is tasked with reintegrating the multitude of past art movements, resolving disassociated conflicts, into a greater whole. A multicultural, multifaceted — that is, a comprehensive approach — is thus the progression beyond arbitrary obsessions & expressions of dualism, towards a greater union of self — intrapsychic, interpersonal and transpersonal.
Read MoreMapping ORIGINS: Artistic Dynamism /
Striving, in an aesthetic and philosophical quest, each artist looks for remedies for the alienation of society from nature
Read MoreMapping ORIGINS: Colors of the Individuated Personality /
Color itself is finally revealed to be a profound conveyer of the status of our inner dualism, and a possible path towards connecting to a source of oneness — that is an inner radiance, or inner light.
Read MoreThe Lover Archetype in Modern Men: Soundcloud Rappers, XXXTentacion as Dionysus /
Both Orpheus and Dionysus are archetypes commonly active in the personalities of contemporary artists. An artist with an undeveloped “Orphic” disposition will tend more towards a longing, romanticization and dramatization — a poetic, almost mystical love. The artist tinged more with an immature “Dionysian” typology will be affected by extreme emotionality and even reckless, violent behavior. These typical scenarios are caused by living out a collective pattern — an archetype — which has an impersonal disregard the individual wellbeing.
Read MoreSam Harris and David Benatar Debate Anti-Natalism: Breaking Through the Philosophical Quibble /
David Benatar is a philosopher and writer who insists that a universe without human beings is better off than one with them. He believes, that because sentient beings can suffer, in varying degrees, it is better that they never lived. Additionally, once living, suicide is, in the majoirty of cases, a moral wrongdoing.This school of thought is known as “Anti-Natalism.”
Read MoreNew Age Ridiculousness at Columbia University Program /
Among his seemingly random meanderings throughout the class, events that took place included, a girl crying to the class for 20 minutes about the very personal death of her grandfather, a loose discussion on the concept of time and how we don’t live in the moment, several aggressive table pounds by the professor, and a couple of phrases that made shallow sense, like “life doesn’t go fast, we go fast”.
Read MorePaul Gauguin: Desire and Immortality /
Paul Gauguin, a painter of the 1890’s, achieved an immortality through his art. Much of his drive to create was a compulsion in which he sacrificed his well-being to achieve. Yet, the contents of his imagination and intellect live on in the cultural canon of Western art, and his aesthetics propagated a new vision of art, influencing the likes of Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse. The psychological power behind such a drive will be explored in this essay, along with much more.
Read MoreThe Suggested Pivot for Atheism: Rational Mind and Poetic Mind /
If, as a culture at large, which has been rapidly advancing scientifically, we can reactivate the appreciation of the poetry in life we would all better exist in relation to one another and to ourselves. This means seeing some aspects of life as facts of physics and others as facts of psyche.
Read MoreEaster: Osiris, Christ and Myths of Transformation /
The instinct that we must “sacrifice” to have the renewal is a fundamental representation of experience, found in our instinctual psyche. Our ancestors experienced the outside world, and inner world as a continuum. This meant that psychological processes had to be practiced outwardly to encourage consciousness, or rather capability towards sustaining themselves
Read MoreThe History of Alchemy: From Isaac Newton to Joe Rogan /
In the ancient past — Egypt for example — there were a class of people who had profound knowledge. Their knowledge came from some much more distant past (before the ice age) and the difference between that knowledge and the type people seek today, is that the ancient knowledge was always infused with what one could call a “spiritual” perspective.
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